Ludolf R. Grollé

Hailing from Europe, Ludolf Grollé is an active contemporary painter on the Canadian art scene, focusing on both abstract expressionism and impressionism.

Ludolf describes his approach to style as a need to hone in on massive colour detail, but held inside a vague abstractness — a haze of colour, thought, smoke, and passion, and its impact on the mind and on the individual.

His paintings evolve somewhere in the amorphous area between reality, the figurative, and allegory.

Gestural, innovative abstraction — sweeping, layered, thickly gessoed and textured patches of acrylic — carries an expressive quality that sends a clear and distinct message to the viewer.

Each piece reads as an interpretation of the artist's own intention toward his subject matter, evoking an emotional response in turn.

Colour plains are evident not only in the action of material on canvas, but the paint itself seems to draw on the pictorial techniques artists use to describe the subconscious and the inner soul.

As with many of the great abstract artists, there is a sensory reaction to the dynamics of the elements Grollé embraces — clearly an image brought into being through intuitive technique.

Written by Professor John F. Walter, 2007.
Founder of the Pre-Simulationist Movement.
Author of various critiques on Neural Mind Mapping.
Creative writer, playwright and poet.